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JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 1: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) | 
| Creator: Shungiku Nakamura
Publisher: Blu
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 69681
Media: Paperback
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 1598167197
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5952
EAN: 9781598167191
ASIN: 1598167197
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
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Book Description
Misaki is struggling to pass his college entrance exams, and has taken up a tutor: the cool and sexy Akihiko Usami, who also happens to be a famous boys' love novelist. At first, Misaki is disgusted by Akihiko, but slowly, Misaki realizes he may be developing feelings for the older man. And so begins the bumpy relationship of this odd couple, filled with comedy and pure romance...
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Way better than I expected April 6, 2008
handless_sage (Mesa, AZ United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was featured in one of my other mangas by the Blu publishing company at the back with the advertisements. It had a cute premise so I decided to buy it. I highly recommend it! It was cute, funny, racy and very sexy. Most boy love stories are cute but mostly tame. This is pretty explicit and was very delightful for that fact. I think you'll enjoy it. ^_^
WHAT....DID....YOU....SEE?! ("USAGI") February 12, 2008
Emily Wilson (Baton Rouge, La USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 1: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica)
I found the story to be one that I can never really put down, every time I get a new volume I start at the beginning and work my way through them all over again...I consider it one of the best series I own. Both of the romances have a sad flare to them that brings both character conflict and a little understanding into the way they act now. Both stories come together sometimes and bring a sense of what a sad love teaches us for the next great love. I look forward to reading and collecting these until the very end. And just as it seems that nothing else can happen the sh** hits the fan and I love to see what they do. The characters grow and grow on you and you want to see the resolution of mind and body....LOL, plus who would have thought the two Usami brothers would love the same person, being that they are so different...waiting for the six volume, while reading the old ones looking for clues....AND a shout out to the author: "I enjoy your work and it brings both laughter and sadness(waiting for the next volume) to my day, week, or month! And with three jobs and school, I need that... ~_~" Emiri
 Don't buy this with your own money! December 4, 2007
AeryonSun (Ohio, US of A)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
While I did buy this with my own money I wish I hadn't. In this volume there are two couples we get the "honor" of reading about. The first, a D average student and his tutor a sexy boys love novelist and the second a lanuage student at an university and a smart orphan student in need of tutoring (seeing a pattern?). Any hoo, the first couple is a bore, with the novelist randomly molesting the not adorable student. If you are familar with yaoi then you would know that in some stories this type of action/scenes work. So I am assuming the manga-ka of this just assumed it would work for her story as well. It doesn't. They are thrown in and meant to be seen as some sort of comical relief. While the D average student is complaining about the "Perverted" novelist we soon see him getting upset that the novelist is really just using him as a substitute for who he really loves. Huh? What? Yeah they are a stupid couple with no flow, solid plot, or romance.
With that said, the second couple, the language student and orphan, are actually quite cute and fun to read. If you can force yourself through the snooze fest of the first couple then this second one is worth reading. While there are some scenes that are a bit odd (the orphan shows up at the others house and makes breakfast though the language student clearly doesn't want him there) it all pans out because this couple moves a bit slower and the intentions of both are clearly shown to the reader. If the manga was just this second couple then it would be worth the money, however, since it's not, really don't bother. Unless you just like reading pointless smut.
 More Like Negative Six! September 29, 2007
Karnation (Queens, NY USA)
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
A writer tutoring a HS student serves as setup for a series of rape-porn interludes, strung together by "emotional" scenes which make no sense unless you assume the characters are being remote controlled by a brain damaged alien with zero understanding of human behavior.
The writer is tutoring his "best friend's" little brother. He harbors a secret lust for his friend. When the kid discovers this he accuses Writer Guy of forcing his fantasies on his brother. The writer is shocked, SHOCKED, that he would be accused of forcing anybody, and so promptly forces sex on the kid (Interlude 1). After this the kid observes -- seriously -- that Writer Guy "would never do anything my brother wouldn't like", and reserves his moral outrage for when his "cruel" brother gets married to some nice female non-rapist. Then bizarre "heart-tugging" scenes spring out of nowhere, as though the writer saw them work in other manga, and thought stringing them together at random between sadistic sex scenarios would be a quick way to earn a few bucks. I got this at the library, if you can believe it. Hopefully donated by a disgusted buyer, and not something my tax money was spent on.
Engaging and funny July 10, 2007
robbie (MD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I will say that I liked this story. From the very begining I was hooked. Though one can almost predict was is going to happen between Usagi-san and Misaki. But that is the case with a lot of the stories. The only problem I have had is that the drawings are a little different that what I have been used to. I find that sometimes I have to look and look hard and turn the book this way and that to try to determine what is what. The proportions are skewed as well, though that seems to be the author's style.
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